BERNIE SANDERS ON 2020, DONALD TRUMP JR. EMAIL AND WHAT AMERICA NEEDS IN AN FBI DIRECTOR
BY STAV ZIV ON 7/12/17 AT 4:43 PM
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Sanders’s fans, political observers and the media have been asking him for months whether he’ll consider running again in 2020. The Vermont senator’s usual answer is that it’s way too early to talk about the next election. He reiterated as much in an interview that will air Thursday morning on Sirius XM’s “Make It Plain With Mark Thompson.” But when Thompson asked Sanders whether he’s leaving 2020 on the table or taking it off, the senator answered, more directly than he normally does, that he isn’t not considering it.
“No, I am not taking it off the table. I just have not made any decisions,” Sanders said. “And I think it’s much too early,” he continued, directing the conversation to what he believes the public should be focusing on at this time.
In the interview with Thompson scheduled to air at 8 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, Sanders also addressed two major topics of the day—Donald Trump Jr.’s email and the nominee for FBI director, Christopher Wray.
“From my point of view it is a very damaging piece of evidence,” he said of Trump Jr.’s email. “But what is important is that there be a methodical, objective, bipartisan process that looks at this whole business of the possibility of Trump’s campaign colluding with the Russians,” he added. “To me this is pretty clearly a damaging revelation. But the process has got to continue, and it will.”
Sanders also stressed the need for an independent FBI director. “We have a president who is doing things that have been unprecedented. There is reason to believe that he may have fired the last F.B.I. director because that director was in the middle of an investigation looking at the possible collusion of the Trump campaign with Russia,” he said. “The most important thing is that any new F.B.I. director within the Trump administration has got to be absolutely independent and has got to make it clear that he will stand up for law and for justice, and not be at the whim of this president.”
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